Improved beer-cooler



L'GECMEN. Beer. Cooler.

No. 83,953. y Patented Nov. 10, 1868.

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Letters Patent No. 83,953, dated November 10, 1868.

IMPROVE!) BEER-COOLER The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pan of the same.'

To all Lt-710m it may concern Be it known that I, J osera GECMEN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Cooling Beer', and I do hereby declare and make known that the following is a full, clear, and exac-tdescription ofthe saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and iigines marked thereon, which forni part of this speciticzttion.

-,' My invention consists in anovel apparatus for cooling beer, ale, and other' malt liquors, and other iiuids requiring similar treatment; and to enable those skilled in the art to widerstand how to construct and inake use or" my said improvement, I will proceed to describe the saine with particnlarity, making reference in so doing to the aforesaid drawings, in which- Figure l represents a 4plan or top view of my invention;

Figure 2, a vertical cross-sectional view at the red line in l; and

Figlne 3' is a vertical section of the saine at the red line in fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate the saine parts of my invention in the different iigurcs.

A represents a suitable enclosure of the apparatus, constructed of sheet-iron, or other suitable material, which may becovered or not, as preferred, and may have one or both of its ends hinged, or otherwise constructedso as to open or be removed, when desired.

B represents a long trough, extending entirely across one end ofthe apparatus, as shown, said trough being divided kinto two parts, longitudinally, by'a gauze diaphragin, marked b, which serves' as a strainer, through which the beer, when introduced into the trough or vat, passes, to go out at the peribrations a, below said diaphragm, and in the side oi" said trough, as clearly seen in 3.

C D E F G H l J are corrugated plates, oi sheetiron, or other suitable material, said oorrugations being so formed as to form shallow channels, along which the beer, passing out in fine streams through the holes a, `runs, as indicated the arrows, from one pan to the other below in the series, until it finally passes out at the pipe or outlet K in the bottom.

The alternate arrangement of the series of pans, corrugated as aforesaid, so shortened at opposite ends as to allow the beer to ilow from one pan down upon the one below it, is clearly seen in fig.

The said pans are supported by resting upon appropriate brackets or stops upon the sides of vthe enclosure, and upon reinovable'or irremovable rods or bars,

r, passing across the apparatus, as shown.

The said pans may be permanentlysecured in place in the enclosure A, or may be so arranged as to be removable, when desired.

At L is an opening, through which a current of cold air from an ice-house may be forced into the apparatus, passing up through the series'of pans, as indicated by the red arrows, coming in contact with the shallow streams of beer passing in the opposite direction along the shallow channels or corrugations in the pans, thus peiiectly cooling the beer, as desired.

Two of the above-described arrangements may be used together, one being placed over the other, the beer passing from the upper one into the lower one, and a blast of air, of the ordinary temperature, may be forced into the upper one, and a blast of ice-house or chilled air into the lower one, if desired.

Having described the construction and operationvof my invention, I will specify what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

l. I claim a series of corrugated pans, constructed and arranged substantially in the manner and for the purpose shown and described.

2. In combination with a series of pans, arranged as specified, I claim a trough, B, provided with a strainer, b, and outlets, a., arranged substantially in the Inanner and for the purposes described and set forth.

3. I claim the opening L, in the enclosure A, below the series of cooling-pans, for the purposes speciiied.

' J OS. GECMEN.

Witnesses W'. E. MARES, L. L. COBURN. 

